Lead Digital Design Architect | Shape the Digital Thread

Hitachi ABB Power Grids; Västerås kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi ABB Power Grids is seeking a Digital Design Capability Architect/Lead to establish and evolve its Digital Design capability across CAD, Electronic Design, BIM and related engineering tools, enabling a connected digital thread between design tools, PLM, data and downstream business processes.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, architects, product owners and stakeholders to define standards, reusable design frameworks and governance, driving adoption of modern digital engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, CS, IT, or related discipline.
• Experience with CAD, PLM, BIM, EDA or related digital engineering platforms.
• Understanding of product development, data and configuration management.
• Experience with digital thread concepts linking design, manufacturing, and enterprise systems.
• Knowledge of PLM solutions such as Teamcenter or similar.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to translate requirements into practical solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience in Agile, DevOps or continuous improvement is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Drive the implementation and continuous improvement of Digital Design capabilities across CAD, Electronic Design, BIM, and other engineering applications.
• Define, maintain, promote engineering standards, templates, libraries and best practices for scalable product development.
• Support development of an integrated digital thread by improving data flow and interoperability between CAD systems, PLM platforms, and other enterprise applications.
• Collaborate with engineering, manufacturing, quality and IT teams to improve engineering efficiency, increase design reuse, and reduce rework.
• Participate in defining solution architectures, governance models, support structures, and capability roadmaps for engineering digitalization initiatives.
• Contribute to pilot programs, proof-of-concepts, and global deployment activities that demonstrate business value.
• Act as trusted advisor to stakeholders by providing expertise in engineering processes, digital design tools, product structures, configuration management, and lifecycle management.
• Support training, change management and adoption activities to ensure successful implementation of new ways of working.

Skills

CAD

Electronic Design

BIM

PLM

Engineering data management

Configuration management

Agile methodologies

DevOps

Digital transformation

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline

Tools

Teamcenter

Job description

Hitachi ABB Power Grids is seeking a Digital Design Capability Architect/Lead to establish and evolve its Digital Design capability across CAD, Electronic Design, BIM and related engineering tools, enabling a connected digital thread between design tools, PLM, data and downstream business processes.

You will collaborate with engineering teams, architects, product owners and stakeholders to define standards, reusable design frameworks and governance, driving adoption of modern digital engineering